Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A hostile NPC statue wakes up, which means you can lure it away from the door.) SHINY ART STYLE: The most obvious difference vs its Skyrim mod roots is the art style -- it went from 2011 pre-PBR Skyrim to 2020 UE4 Quixel 4k photoscans with subsurface scatter'd Character Creator NPCs.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

As AI continues to advance, the future of art and AI in game development holds tremendous promise. Artists have always played a crucial role in game development, meticulously creating characters, environments, and animations. Developers strive relentlessly to make games that seem more realistic and engaging.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. All the content in the game was just data in fields. And above all… quests.

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Logic Simplified

JANUARY 8, 2023

It is an umbrella term for all immersive technologies including augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR), and those yet to be developed. It has the potential to revolutionize how we interact with digital content and could change the way we work, learn, play, and live. What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e. Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it. Very streamlined, much faster, low stakes, and often just setting up the inevitable ensuing gunfight.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

As in, it says that developers are ALLOWED to do a certain thing, not that they HAVE to do it. But a Lot of Pretty Things get Repeated While Elden Ring is enormous, a lot of that length comes from repeated content. Fortunately, when you get tired of a certain sort of content, you can skip it. How does any developer know?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Hello, and welcome to the official Kristala dev blog, where we break down the development process for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala each month. If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. Why, you might ask?

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Nothing stops you from adding more commands, functions, markup tags, or new ways to process the script. // custom NPC AI script example? Both of those famous games are very typical video game RPG style things where you walk around a world and talk to NPCs, one at a time. > Bob is weird (choice 2) Bob: I'm not that weird, am I?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Second, quest development is linear on the map. Others: Multiple replay reasons Lost Ark has innovated on some interesting gameplay systems besides quests and battles that encourage replaying content. In the earlier stage, the raids in the main quest are quite easy and exist to help develop the story. UI of adventure scroll）.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Kristala at Play NYC 2021. We can't wait to go back again next year!

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

As this video talks about, as players play more and more games, it becomes more difficult for them to find this sense of wonder in new games – even more so when they become game developers themselves. It’s the fault of developers for not exploring new kinds of stories, new kinds of worlds, new kinds of mechanics and so on.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox? How should I space out my content to create the pacing I want? What do I need to consider to make non-linear storytelling still feel like a coherent narrative and not a bunch of disjointed vignettes?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Welcome back to the newest issue of the Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation chronicling all the magic and mystery the Astral Clocktower Studios dev team puts into indie ARPG Kristala every development sprint. Last issue, we shared 3D Character Designer Bianca's progress on the model for our Nisargan forest nymph NPC. Take a look!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. If you've been digging these development breakdowns, we'd love to hear from you! If you're just joining us, welcome!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Although this is typically the only place where you can get a monthly peek into all the development that goes into Kristala—a 3D dark fantasy ARPG from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—things will soon be changing. Welcome back to another exciting issue of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog! 3D Character Design. Sound Design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A 10-year gaming industry veteran, leading game development teams focused on free-to-play titles across mobile and PC. With Blizzard's expertise in creating compelling end-game content, Warcraft Rumble has the potential to become a major success and influence future game design trends. ? Written by Christopher Brousseau.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

We know it's been a miiinute since we've shared some in-depth development updates from Kristala with you, but we're SUPER STOKED for you to see everything we've been working on since the last time we met. GDC is the game industry's premier professional event, championing game developers and the advancement of their craft. Concept Art.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. CONTENT WARNING 2: the game is rather explicit, but I've kept the imagery in this post relatively tame, at a semi-NSFW / soft-R rating. Some players may try to guess an NPC's sexual mood based on stereotypes like muscular tops, skinny submissive twink bottoms, etc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A 10-year gaming industry veteran, leading game development teams focussed on free-to-play titles across mobile and PC. With Blizzard's expertise in creating compelling end-game content, Warcraft Rumble has the potential to become a major success and influence future game design trends. Written by Christopher Brousseau.

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